Covering the Anti-Fracking Rally for WCNY

I adore freelance opportunities like this: the gathering of thousands at the Corning Preserve to rally against hydrofracking. The Cuomo administration’s decision to allow or ban the extraction method in NY State is drawing closer. I would have showed up otherwise but toting a camera in hand for Susan Arbetter’s WCNY show is undoubtedly preferred.

Names analogous to bonafide celebrities (in my book) like author Bill McKibben, actress Debra Winger and “Gasland” filmmaker Josh Fox roared with indignation about the consequences of drilling with dangerous fracturing fluids. A crowd of, I suspect, well over 1500, went wild when a petite white-haired spitfire named Ruth Young from Horseheads, NY took the microphone and bellowed about the stupidity and greed of the fossil fuel industry.

The united met at the Corning Preserve then paraded up Broadway to the DEC building then finally finished off their call to action activities at Capitol Park.

Sonja Stark

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